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Would Gove win the support of the grassroots Tory party? My brother in law is a fairly senior party member, and he reckons most of the party see him as the snivelling, slimy cunt that he comes across as…

    vinnyt77 would he hell. He fucked up his chance of being PM the moment he stabbed Boris in the back in 2016. It will be a Raab Sunak run off.

        alistair Yeah - that’s where my money would be as well. Sunak I think would win in a head-to-head.

          Hursty they’d both have half a chance of winning a GE, something Gove wouldn’t. Self preservation is what Tories do best

            vinnyt77 My brother in law is a fairly senior party member

            Sounds like a legend!

            • Amps replied to this.

                Amps there’s a rule of them which I think could save people on here a lot of time:

                If Amps posts it, chances are it’s complete bullshit.

                    Along_the_Wire you can literally see that the flooded area in the photo Amps posted is the same as spot 1 in the link I posted (by Ruckinge Dyke/Newtown, with one straight section of motorway at the bottom, and with the motorway section at the top cutting from right to left with the loop). You can see it on google maps as well.

                    Meanwhile, here is confirmation that the lorry park will indeed be built rather on the spot highlighted as 2 on the picture I posted - Church Road, Sevington, next to the M20:

                    https://shepwayvox.org/2020/07/10/10000-lorry-brexit-customs-clearance-centre-to-be-built-on-the-outskirts-of-ashford/#prettyPhoto

                      Smart money goes on Jeremy Hunt in Jan. He’s capable, is untouched with any of the covid fallout, white and is happy to work with Murdoch.

                      Made me laugh:

                      • Dan replied to this.

                        Banning combustion sale of combustion cars by 2030 is good but I think it should be quicker.

                        They should also bin hybrid sales at the same time.

                          Hursty Those housing improvements should have come in 15 years ago too. They’re probably the easiest of the lot to implement.

                            Hursty all good in theory and I support the transition, but where are all the charging points? The infrastructure needs to be in place. It’s a huge project requiring a huge amount of investment and joined up thinking. Moreover electric cars cannot be the sole preserve of the rich. They have to manufacture ranges that are competitively priced and do this in the time-frame. They need to take the public with them on this otherwise it will be one gigantic u-turn

                                alistair Not denying that nationally, the infrastructure has gotta be massively improved. It’s starting though. I drive an EV, and live in Brighton. There’s now a network of over 300 charging points across the city, including 5 within 200m of my house. It’s not there yet, but it’s a start…